evade

  1. Verb.  To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
  2. Verb.  To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  3. Verb.  To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

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